Too Fragile to Travel (?)
July 15 2021
Picture: Latimes.com
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Apologies, I seemed to have missed this rather fascinating article published by the Los Angeles Times last week.
The newspaper have run a story on the fact that a panel of nine American and European conservators 'strongly recommends against lending ‘The Blue Boy’” to the aforementioned London exhibition in 2022. The Huntington Museum, who appointed the panel of experts to advise them, seems to have overridden the recommendation of the conservators assembled. Frustratingly, no exact reasons seem to have been disclosed, however, it seems that intervening conservation treatment seems to have caused some contention as to the suitability of the loan.
In case you're wondering who was on the panel, the article listed the following experts:
Among the group was Michael Gallagher, conservation head at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rica Jones, a Gainsborough specialist who is retired conservator at Tate Britain, the national collection of British art housed in London on the banks of the Thames; Mark Aronson from the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven; and Mikkel Scharff, head of the Institute of Conservation at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen.
